Activities of Marcus PRETZELL related to 2015/2104(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the role of the EU within the UN – how to better achieve EU foreign policy goals
Amendments (5)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes into account both the complex institutional set-up of the United Nations (UN) and the specific nature of the European Union (EU) as a supranational union holding enhanced observer status within the UN, but whose Member States are also individual UN members; calls for a better liaison between both UN players and its different structures by improvand independent UN members which they undoubtedly will continue to be, thus, instantiating the fundamental principle of subsidiarity; calls for stabilization of the influence of the single member states while simultaneously keeping proverall coordination and coherencen liason between EU and UN;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports the UN reform agenda for expressing effective multilateralism, while acknowledging the enhancedspecial status of the EU at the UN General Assembly following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon on 1 December 2009 which fully professes subsidiarity as an outstanding characteristic, and the adoption of UN Resolution 65/276 on ‘Participation of the European Union in the work of the United Nations' of 3 May 2011;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that a solid and stable EU-UN partnership is fundamental to the work of the UN under all three pillars – peace and security, human rights and development – and is also key to the EU's role as a global actor adding to the individual action of each of its Member States as is engraved in the treaties of Lisbon and Maastricht, which especially outline that subsidiarity is indispensable and important for a federal union of states such as the EU and a crucial and central element of its regulatory concept;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is committed to making the UN system better suited to new global power configurations, amongst others, adding Germany as permanent member to the United Nations Security Council, and increasing its transparency, accountability and effectiveness by avoiding duplication and using the different UN structures more rationally, but without constraining the principle of subsidiarity and, therefore, respecting subsidiarity control and preventive measures, such as reproval and complaint, granted to the national parliament of each EU Member State in the Treaty of Lisbon;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the EU and, additionally, its Member States are collectively the biggest financial donor to the UN budget; insists, therefore, in the spirit of the ‘Delivering as One' initiative (one leader, one budget, one programme, one office), on the need to ensure a higher degree of visibility for EU funding channelled through the UN, as well as an efficient use of the funds concerned; requests that the UN and the Commission keep Parliament fully informed on the UN's implementation of EU contributions and further calls for better integration of the EU Member States into the decision processes of the UN by having them represented in the respective committees across all levels;